The purpose of this research is to investigate current company business process from sales forecasting perspective and provide potential improvements of how to deal with unstable market demand and increase overall precision of forecasting. The problem which company face is an unstable market demand and not enough precision in sales forecasting process. Therefore the research questions are:  How current forecasting process can be improved?  What methods, can be implemented in order to increase the precision of forecasting? Study can be described as an action research using an abductive approach supported by combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis practices. In order to achieve high degree of reliability the study was based on verified scientific literature and data collected from the case company while collaborating with company’s COO. Research exposed the current forecasting process of the case company. Different forecasting methods were chosen according to the existing circumstances and analyzed in order to figure out which could be implemented in order to increase forecasting precision and forecasting as a whole. Simple exponential smoothing showed the most promising accuracy results, which were measured by applying MAD, MSE and MAPE measurement techniques. Moreover, trend line analysis was applied as well, as a supplementary method. For the reason that the case company presents new products to the market limited amount of historical data was available. Therefore simple exponential smoothing technique did not show accurate results as desired. However, suggested methods can be applied for testing and learning purposes, supported by currently applied qualitative methods.

La presente investigación está enfocada en la industria de explosivos, la cual trabaja directamente con distintos sectores en el país, tales como el sector de construcción, el sector de defensa y la industria minera, siendo esta última la que durante los últimos 60 años ve a los explosivos como recurso necesario y primordial, para ejercer su determinado fin. Por esto, el foco de la presente tesis es analizar cuáles son los principales factores que influyeron a las exportaciones de explosivos fabricados a partir del nitrato de amonio (emulsiones), las cuales poseen la partida arancelaria (3602002000), durante los años 2006 al 2017 hacia nuestro país vecino del sur Chile. Para esto la investigación tomo como base diversos estudios tales como Dynamite Market Global Forecast, Global Ammonium Nitrate Explosive Market Size and Industry Trends los cuales detallan sobre un conjunto de factores que impulsan el crecimiento del mercado de explosivos en el mundo. Asimismo, este estudio se basa en un enfoque cualitativo para la determinación de los principales factores y un enfoque cuantitativo para el análisis de la información recabada. En una primera etapa cualitativa, se logró contrastar e identificar una serie de factores claves que influenciaron directamente a las exportaciones de emulsiones peruanas, las cuales se obtuvieron a partir de entrevistas a profundidad realizadas a especialistas dedicados a este rubro. Posterior a la identificación de los factores se compararon los datos obtenidos en una segunda parte de la investigación, la cual se basa en un análisis cuantitativo sobre la información obtenida. . / The present investigation is focused on the explosives industry, which works directly with different sectors in the country, such as the construction sector, the defense sector and the mining industry, the latter being the one that during the last 60 years sees explosives as a necessary and primary resource, to exercise their specific purpose. Therefore, the focus of this thesis is to analyze what are the main factors that influenced the exports of explosives manufactured from ammonium nitrate (emulsions), which have the tariff heading (3602002000), during the years 2006 to 2017 To our neighboring country in southern Chile. For this, the research was based on various studies such as Dynamite Market Global Forecast, Global Ammonium Nitrate Explosive Market Size and Industry Trends which detail a set of factors that drive the growth of the explosives market in the world. Likewise, this study is based on a qualitative approach for the determination of the main factors and a quantitative approach for the analysis of the information collected. In a qualitative first stage, it was possible to contrast and identify a series of key factors that directly influenced the exports of Peruvian emulsions, which were obtained from in-depth interviews with specialists dedicated to this area. After the identification of the factors, the data obtained in a second part of the investigation were compared, which is based on a quantitative analysis of the information obtained. / Tesis

Supply chain security has become relevant to both practitioners and academics for years, yet the understanding of this topic is still incomplete. The literature produces relatively few explanatory and confirmatory studies, offers ambiguous definitions and terminology and the theoretical development is inconsistent. In this dissertation, I review relevant research streams and employ four in-depth case studies to conceptualize supply chain security (SCS). I also utilize the principles of human immunology to propose a taxonomy of supply chain security management (SCSM) mechanisms. Building on institutional theory and the taxonomy, I further examine the antecedents as well as the consequences of SCSM mechanisms via a large empirical data set collected during 2011-2013. The sample includes responses from 462 firms. Specifically, in my first model I draw on the institutional theory and posit that five institutional isomorphism pressures (i.e., government, customer, peer, normative, and performance pressure) impact four classes of SCSM mechanisms (i.e., prevention, detection, reaction, and restoration). In addition, shared SCS perception (SSP) and top management commitment (TMC) are hypothesized to moderate (strengthen) the relationships between institutional pressures and SCSM mechanisms. In my second model, I propose that the four classes of mechanisms explain five different supply chain performance dimensions (i.e., security performance, cost performance, supply chain responsiveness, supply chain resilience, and supply chain visibility). I also specify differential effects for both models; some effects are more salient than others. The results suggest that not all institutional pressures motivate the implementation of SCSM mechanisms. While normative pressure and performance pressure act as predominantly powerful predictors of SCSM mechanisms, other pressures appear to have negligible or even adverse effects. Surprisingly, data analysis suggests that coercive institutional pressures (i.e., government pressure and customer pressure) do not exhibit the strongest effects on SCSM mechanisms as the literature would suggest. As far as the moderation effect is concerned, the results illustrate that neither SSP nor TMC interact with all institutional pressures to affect the employment of SCSM mechanisms. In addition, TMC can even impede the implementation of reaction- and restoration-oriented SCSM mechanisms when interacting with government pressure. Regarding supply chain performance, the results demonstrate that SCSM mechanisms have strong effects on multiple supply chain performance measures. Further assessments reveal that the effect of SCSM mechanisms on supply chain security performance is stronger than its effects on other performance dimensions.

Submitted by Rafael Santana (rafael.silvasantana@ufpe.br) on 2017-04-26T19:06:08Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO VERSÃO FINAL - Significados atribuídos ao CB - Juliene Brasileiro.pdf: 2072104 bytes, checksum: db870f3daf53fed8f1b8e304d8db6b99 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-26T19:06:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO VERSÃO FINAL - Significados atribuídos ao CB - Juliene Brasileiro.pdf: 2072104 bytes, checksum: db870f3daf53fed8f1b8e304d8db6b99 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-25 / Introdução: A humanidade tem desenvolvido uma relação muito intensa com a tecnologia. A sua presença e as facilidades oferecidas por ela são inegáveis. Entre os mais jovens, essa cultura das “ciberrelações” está tão presente que vem constituindo um espaço para a expressão de atitudes e emoções. Especificamente no que concerne às manifestações violentas é crescente o número de casos de violência virtual entre pares. Jovens escolares tem utilizado o cyberespaço para provocar danos a colegas ou grupo de colegas de escola. Essas atitudes violentas no ambiente virtual recebem o nome de Cyberbullying (CB). O CB já compõe uma categoria específica de violência com efeitos danosos à saúde como as cefaleias, crises de ansiedade, depressões, uso de substâncias psicoativas, insônia, enurese, dores abdominais, consumo de álcool e ideias suicidas. É necessário perceber o fenômeno sobre perspectiva dos envolvidos com uma abordagem qualitativa sobre o tema. Objetivos: Compreender os significados atribuídos ao CB envolvendo adolescentes na perspectiva de alunos e educadores. Caminhos metodológicos: Pesquisa qualitativa realizada em uma instituição de ensino privada de Recife. Participaram do estudo 12 educadores que atuavam na equipe administrativo-pedagógica da escola e na docência do ensino médio e 11 alunos de 15 a 18 anos, matriculados no ensino médio. Os dados foram coletados através de grupos focais e entrevistas individuais norteadas por um roteiro semiestruturado. A técnica de análise utilizada foi a de análise de conteúdo com o apoio do software Atlas ti. Resultados: Os resultados foram agrupados em duas categorias temáticas: a primeira categoria, Caracterização do CB, versou sobre o conceito, as características, as causas, o perfil dos envolvidos e as consequências dessa forma de violência. A segunda categoria agrupou as concepções sobre as Ações de combate e responsabilidade pelo enfrentamento no CB. Sobre a caracterização os participantes identificam o CB como uma forma de violência que atinge vítimas, agressores e audiência e que possui consequências imediatas e em longo prazo para a saúde e as relações sociais de todos. Foi identificada também uma multiplicidade causal para o fenômeno e sobre a caracterização dos envolvidos, apesar de haver grupos mais vulneráveis a tornar-se vítima ou agressor, qualquer pessoa pode se ver envolvida na violência do CB. Em relação à responsabilidade pelo enfrentamento do CB, os participantes deram ênfase à atuação da escola e da família, citando também a atuação dos envolvidos e do Estado. Os educadores propuseram uma distribuição de responsabilidades entre todos os citados. As ações de enfrentamento propostas tiveram caráter informativo, educativo, disciplinar e punitivo pensadas em conjunto com a comunidade escolar e arredores e aplicadas de forma combinada e sistematizada. / Introduction: Mankind has developed a very close relationship with technology. Their presence and the facilities offered by it are undeniable. Among young people, this culture of "Cyber relationships" is so present that has constituted a space for the expression of attitudes and emotions. Specifically with respect to violent demonstrations is increasing the number of cases of virtual peer violence. School youth has used cyberspace to cause damage to colleagues or group of schoolmates. These violent attitudes in the virtual environment are called Cyberbullying (CB). The CB already make up a specific category of violence with adverse health effects such as headaches, anxiety attacks, depression, substance abuse, insomnia, bedwetting, abdominal pain, alcohol consumption and suicidal ideation. It is necessary to understand the phenomenon of perspective of those involved with a qualitative approach to the subject. Objectives: To understand the meanings attributed to CB involving teenagers from the perspective of students and educators. Methodological approaches: Qualitative research conducted in a private educational institution of Recife. Study participants were 12 teachers who worked in the administrative and teaching staff of the high school and 11 students 15-18 years, enrolled in high school. Data were collected through focus groups and individual interviews guided by a semi-structured script. The analysis technique used was the content analysis technique with the support of Atlas ti software. Results: The results were grouped into two thematic categories: the first category, CB characterization, expounded on the concept, the characteristics, causes, profile of those involved and the consequences of this form of violence. The second category grouped the concepts of combat actions and responsibility for coping in CB. On the characterization participants identify the CB as a form of violence that affects victims, aggressors and audience and has immediate and long-term consequences for health and social relationships of all. It has also identified a causal multiplicity of the phenomenon and on the characterization of those involved, although there will be more vulnerable to becoming a victim or perpetrator, anyone can be involved in CB violence. Regarding responsibility for coping with CB, participants emphasized the school and family activities, also citing the actions of those involved and the state. Educators proposed a distribution of responsibilities between all of the above. The actions of confrontation proposals were informative, educational, disciplinary and punitive designed in conjunction with the school community and surrounding area and applied in combined and systematic manner

This is a descriptive study of the therapeutic relationship between Thando, who has been diagnosed with dyslexia and Ilze, an intern counseling psychologist. During our therapeutic relationship Thando’s view of herself and her diagnosed dyslexia improved remarkably. The improvement came without any specifically planned strategies or interventions. This study attempts to describe what happened in the therapeutic relationship to bring about the changes that occurred and attempts to give meaning to the changes. The study describes the impact that a diagnosis can have on the life of the diagnosed individual. It also suggests that the discovery of the person behind the label may be a therapeutic antidote to the negative affects that may result from such a diagnosis. A qualitative approach is taken and the data is presented through a case study and unstructured interviews. The interviews provide valuable information about Thando’s experience of the changes that occurred in her as well as her experience of someone who lives with a diagnostic label like dyslexia. / Dissertation (MA (Counselling Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Psychology / unrestricted

The following bachelor thesis in sociology, written by Dalibor Garic in the spring of 2021 at Linnaeus University in Växjö Sweden, named: Emotional work in the restaurant industry: a qualitative sociological study is focused on the emotional work of an increasing service sector or more determined in the restaurant industry. The main purpose od the study was to identify which regulatory strategies frontline employees use when attending troublesome customers but also what strategies they adopt under ordinary conditions. The choice of method was semi- structured qualitative interviews of elev respondent. The theoretical framwork used was Hochschild`s emotion sociological perspektiv, which laid the foundation for research on emotional work as early as 1983. Goffman`s dramaturgical theory, which is part of the symbolic interactionism, contributed to understanding of the dramaturgical parts of the elements of service. The most important results of the study show highly individual differences in the different regulatory strategies. Despite of the differences it was possible to distinguish the following tendencies: employees whith a higher sense of the professional role and whit greater experience had it easier to use both deep-acting (DA) and surface-acting (SA) as regulatory strategies in combination with decrease, neutralization or masking of inappropriate feelings, depending on how difficult the customer is. Temporary employees with weak professional role identification used surface-acting to a greater extent and they were generally emotionally uninvolved in their work. Other results that the study contributes to the research field are that service emplyees use cognitive regulation strategy in improving satisfaction with their work, including emotional transmission from customer. Altso that perfect professional role adjustment and dramaturgical discipline is sought by organizations, customers and by service prviders.

TITLE: "The worst thing about it is that it is a must…" Roma and the Education System in the Czech Republic AUTHOR: Mgr. Markéta Levínská, Ph.D. DEPARTMENT: Psychology SUPERVISOR: doc. PhDr. Miloš Kučera, Ph.D. ABSTRACT: The dissertation thesis presents the results of ethnographic research conducted between 2005 and 2012. The theoretical part provides an analysis of the cognitive process and looks for causes of prejudiced thinking. The practical part presents a number of topical articles with the intention to present the issues relating to the education of Roma in the Czech Republic from different perspectives. The first article deals with the Czech legislation and with the position of the Czech government. The rest of the practical part is divided into two sections - the first section presents two sets of outputs from researches conducted in an urban Roma community. The first article titled Eliška analyses the identity of a representative of the local community; the other, titled Romanka, describes the transfer of a Roma girl from elementary school to practical school. The second section contains chapters presenting field research in excluded rural areas. The chapter A weekday in Alfa addresses the issues of emergence of socially excluded locations and relationship between the majority and the minority....

La presente tesis se encuadra dentro del debate sobre el papel de las universidades en el desarrollo socioeconómico de las regiones. En la primera parte de la tesis se presenta una revisión de la literatura sobre economía regional, centrada en cómo tres conceptos principales ¿distrito industrial, cluster y sistema local de innovación-- han tratado desde sus respectivos enfoques teóricos, el papel de las instituciones de educación superior. En la segunda parte de la tesis se presentan los aspectos metodológicos de cómo abordar el análisis de un fenómeno tan complejo como es el de la evolución del papel de una universidad, atendiendo a la selección del caso estudio, los diferentes niveles de análisis, así como las técnicas de investigación y de recolección y posterior análisis de datos. En la tercera parte de la tesis se muestran los resultados empíricos traducidos en la presentación, tanto del contexto en donde se inserta la universidad objeto de estudio, como de las tres etapas identificadas en la historia de la institución que, si bien presentan características propias de una región de baja tecnología, han sufrido cambios institucionales que conviene tener en cuenta no sólo desde el punto de vista de las políticas universitarias, sino también desde el punto de vista de la gestión de las instituciones de educación superior. Definitivamente, en la cuarta y última parte de la tesis se presentan las principales conclusiones que se desprenden del estudio realizado a lo largo de esta tesis. / This thesis is framed within the debate on the role of universities in the socioeconomic development of regions. It has three distinct parts. The first part of the thesis presents a review of the literature on regional economy, focusing on how three main concepts - industrial district, cluster and local innovation system - have addressed from their respective theoretical approaches, the role of Higher Education Institutions. The second part of the thesis presents the methodological aspects of how to approach the analysis of a phenomenon as complex as is the changing role of a university, based on the selection of the case study, different levels of analysis and research techniques and collection and subsequent data analysis. The third part of the PhD dissertation presents the empirical results of the thesis translated into the presentation of the context in which to insert the university under study, and the three stages identified in the history of the institution, although their characteristics specific to a region of low-tech, have been institutional changes should take into account not only from the viewpoint of university policies, but also from the standpoint of managing Higher Education Institutions. Definitely, the fourth and final part of the thesis presents the main findings from the study along this thesis. / Ortega Colomer, FJ. (2013). The evolution of a higher education institution's local role in a peripheral low-tech region [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/34789

Thesis (DPhil (Psychology))—University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation examines how nurses in primary health care in South Africa make use of guidelines. Primary level health care is reliant primarily on nurses, who are under-resourced and often overwhelmed by the complex needs of their clients in the context of the TB and HIV/AIDS epidemic. Despite various continuing education strategies to promote current and evidence-based practice, there are many barriers to providing optimal care. Clinical practice guidelines using best evidence are an important tool for updating health professionals in current practice, particularly at primary care level, where busy practitioners often do not have time or sufficient access to the best evidence. Despite this, we know little of the practitioners’ experiences of guideline use. This study describes experiences of nurses in implementing clinical practice guidelines in the delivery of health care in selected primary level contexts in the Free State Province. The primary research question for this study was “What are the experiences of nurses in using guidelines in primary health care facilities?” A qualitative research approach, drawing on a psychoanalytic framework, was adopted. Three linked studies were conducted, utilising secondary data analysis of transcripts collected during the PALSA (Practical approach to Lung Health in South Africa) RCT study (sub-study 1), document description and review of guidelines used in primary care settings (sub-study 2), observation of nurses in practice and during patient consultations, and focus group discussions with nurses in primary health care facilities (sub-study 3). After the introduction of new format guidelines with onsite training and access to good support and updates, nurses reported feeling more confident, as the guidelines were explicit and gave them clear direction as to when a patient would need referral to the medical practitioner. When the guidelines were followed, and the patient responded positively to an intervention, this gave nurses a sense of credibility and validated their role as primary level health care providers. Guidelines available in the primary care clinics covered a wide variety of clinical conditions, were inconsistent, often outdated and even contradictory. A detailed comparison of two selected guidelines, the South African TB control guidelines and the PALSA PLUS guidelines, both in everyday use in the Free State province, shows that the preferences expressed by the nurses in sub-study 1 are evident in the layout, colour, and user-friendliness of the PALSA PLUS guideline. Nurses in the Free State province do use guidelines, but not consistently. Nurses make clinical judgments and decisions based on experience, alternative knowledges and intuitive responses, in consultation with colleagues and through the use of guidelines. Very few guidelines were used regularly, and each nurse had her preferences for a limited number of guidelines which she found useful. There is a clear need for integrated approaches to the information needs and support of nurses and nurse practitioners at primary care level. Guidelines play a role in promoting learning, changing professional practice and strengthening health care delivery by nurse practitioners at primary level. They can also be thought of as a strategy the health care system uses to defend against the possibility of its health professionals not meeting its expectations of providing quality care. Guidelines may contain anxiety and improve the quality of care, or compromise practice through the imposition of controls. The use of guidelines in primary care settings facilitates decision making, may contain practitioner anxiety and improve the quality of care, yet guidelines pose challenges to creative discernment of the patient’s symptoms in relation to his/her personal circumstances and may impact on the personalised holistic care approach which characterises the essence of nursing. Today’s primary care nurse and nurse practitioner needs to be a competent clinician, compassionate carer, and confident co-ordinator – the overlapping roles of caring, diagnosing and treating and managing. The challenge for the nurse in primary care is to combine her traditional caring and co-ordination role into a role which encompasses curing, caring and co-ordination, a new, yet critically important identity for the 21st century nurse. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die proefskrif ondersoek hoe verpleegsters in primêre gesondheidsorg in Suid-Afrika van riglyne gebruik maak. Primêre vlak gesondheidsorg steun hoofsaaklik op verpleegsters, alhoewel hulle verswelg word deur die komplekse behoeftes van hul kliënte in die konteks van die TB en HIV/AIDS epidemie. Ten spyte van verskeie volgehoue onderrigstrategieë om die huidige en bewese basiese te bevorder, is daar verskeie struikelblokke om optimale versorging te voorsien. Kliniese praktyk riglyne voorsien die beste bewyse en is 'n belangrike hulpmiddel om praktiserende professionele gesondheidswerkers, veral op die vlak van primêre gesondheidsorg, op hoogte van sake te hou. Besige programme en onvoldoende toegang tot hierdie riglyne weerhou dikwels die gesondheidswerkers van bestaande inligting. Dit is egter onbekend wat gesondheidswerkers se ondervinding en gebruik van riglyne is. Die studie beskryf versorgers se ervaring van die implementering van kliniese praktyk riglyne vir gesondheidsorg in primêre vlak kontekste in die Vrystaatprovinsie. 'n Kwalitatiewe navorsingsbenadering wat steun op 'n psigoanalitiese raamwerk, is gebruik. Drie verbandhoudende studies is gedoen wat sekondêre data analise transkripsies gebruik het wat verkry is gedurende die PALSA (Practical Approach to Lung Health in South Africa): RCT (Willekeurig Gekontroleerde Toets) studie (sub-studie 1), beskrywing van dokumentasie en oorsig van riglyne wat in primêre vlak ontwikkeling gebruik is (sub-studie 2), en observasie van verpleegsters in die praktyk en gedurende konsultasies met pasiënte, en fokusgroep besprekings met verpleegsters in primêre vlak gesondheidsorg fasiliteite (sub-studie 3). Na die bekendstelling van 'n nuwe formaat riglyne vir indiensopleiding en toegang tot goeie ondersteuning, het die verpleegsters meer selfversekerd gevoel omdat die riglyne duideliker was en aan hulle 'n beter aanduiding gegee het wanneer 'n pasiënt verwysing na 'n mediese praktisyn benodig het. Wanneer die riglyne gevolg is en die pasiënt positief op behandeling gereageer het, het dit aan hulle 'n gevoel van agting en deug vir hulle rol in primêre vlak gesondheidsorg gegee het. Beskikbare riglyne in primêre sorg klinieke dek 'n wye verskeidenheid kliniese kondisies, is onsamehangend, dikwels verouderd en selfs soms weersprekend. 'n Gedetailleerde vergelyking is tussen twee geselekteerde riglyne gedoen: die Suid-Afrikaanse TB kontrole riglyne en die PALSA PLUS riglyne. Beide word daagliks in die Vrystaatprovinsie gebruik. Die verpleegsters in sub-studie 1 het a.g.v. die uitleg, kleur en gebruikersvriendelikheid die PALSA PLUS riglyne verkies. Verpleegsters in die Vrystaat gebruik wel riglyne maar nie op 'n gereelde grondslag nie. Hulle maak eerder kliniese keuses en besluite gebaseer op ondervinding, alternatiewe kennis en intuïtiewe gevoel, in konsultasie met kollegas en na bestudering van die riglyne. Baie min riglyne is gereeld gebruik, en elke verpleegster het haar voorkeure vir 'n beperkte aantal riglyne wat sy bruikbaar vind. Daar is 'n duidelike behoefte aan 'n geïntegreerde benadering tot die informasiebehoeftes en ondersteuning aan verpleegsters en praktisyns op primêre sorg vlak. Riglyne speel 'n belangrike rol in die bevordering van onderrig, verandering van professionele praktyke en die versterking van gesondheidsorg wat deur verpleegsters in primêre vlak gesondheidsorg gelewer kan word. Dit kan ook gesien word as 'n strategie wat die gesondheidsorgsisteem kan gebruik om te verseker dat gesondheidswerkers kwaliteit diens lewer. Riglyne kan moontlik angstigheid beperk en verhoogde versorgingskwaliteit bring, of dit kan gesondheidsorg benadeel deur die afdwing van kontrolemaatreëls. Die gebruik van riglyne in primêre sorg fasiliteer besluitneming, en mag dalk angstigheid by die praktisyn beperk, wat dan die kwaliteit van versorging kan verhoog. Riglyne bied uitdagings aan die kreatiewe oordeelsvermoë om die pasiënt se simptome te sien binne die konteks van sy/haar omstandighede en mag 'n impak hê op persoonlike holistiese versorging wat die aard en kern van verpleging is. Die huidige primêre sorg verplegingspraktisyn moet 'n bekwame klinikus, ontfermende versorger en betroubare koördineerder wees – met oorvleuelende rolle van versorging, diagnosering en behandeling, en bestuur. Die uitdaging vir die verpleegster in primêre sorg is om die tradisionele versorging en koördinering te kombineer tot 'n omvattende rol van genesing, versorging en koördinasie; 'n nuwe, maar krities-belangrike identiteit vir die 21ste-eeuse versorger.

Submitted by Celso Magalhaes (celsomagalhaes@ufrrj.br) on 2017-05-22T12:52:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012 - Walter da Costa Mendes.pdf: 1106183 bytes, checksum: ab9cc845c11d847e0f282a8723b9fd65 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-22T12:52:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2012 - Walter da Costa Mendes.pdf: 1106183 bytes, checksum: ab9cc845c11d847e0f282a8723b9fd65 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04-20 / The objective of this study was to investigate the social representations of students from the Tecnologia em Gest?o Ambiental do Instituto Federal Goiano ? Campus Uruta?, on concepts related to the Cerrado and what is its importance to the environment in general and contrast the speech of these representations with scientific knowledge, considering that this biome has become the main alternative for expanding agriculture and cattle raising frontier in Brasil, because it has a mainly flat with ease to the possibility of mechanization and irrigation water availability in the region. The research is a qualitative approach, where we designed a semistructured questionnaire with questions related to the Cerrado and their forms of preservation. The methodology is based on analysis of the collective subject discourse (DSC) according to Moscovici's theory of social representations. The target audience were nineteen students from the sixth grade of the second half of 2010 and twenty-two students from the first grade of the first half of 2011, of the Course Tecnologia em Gest?o Ambiental of the Instituto Federal Goiano ? Campus Uruta?, to make a comparison of students when they start the course and when they finish, watching if the students in the DSC of the sixth period, there have been advances in scientific knowledge regarding the Cerrado, when compared with the DSC students of the first period. Participation in the survey was voluntary, and participants had to submit a term of informed consent, because it is a study in humans, according to the National Council of Ethics. The results found that the DSCs was both the first and sixth periods are very similar, and the cerrado objectification appears with the presentation of the State of Goi?s, suggest agriculture and cattle raising as the best option for investment in productive arrangements for the cerrado, and still, emphasize the richness of biodiversity in the Cerrado. But the responses of students in the sixth period had more coherent texts in relation to scientific knowledge, proving that there was increase in knowledge, some even suggesting alternatives to mitigate the conflict between agriculture and cattle raising production and environmental conservation / O objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar as representa??es sociais dos alunos do Curso de Tecnologia em Gest?o Ambiental do Instituto Federal Goiano ? Campus Uruta?, sobre conceitos relacionados ao bioma Cerrado e qual sua import?ncia para o meio ambiente em geral, e contrastar o discurso dessas representa??es sociais com o conhecimento cient?fico, tendo em vista que esse bioma passou a ser a principal alternativa para a expans?o da fronteira agropecu?ria no Brasil, pois apresenta um relevo predominantemente plano com facilidade para mecaniza??o e possibilidade de irriga??o pela disponibilidade h?drica da regi?o. A pesquisa ? de abordagem qualitativa, onde foi elaborado um question?rio semi-estruturado com quest?es relacionadas com o bioma Cerrado e suas formas de preserva??o. A metodologia adotada se baseia em an?lise de discurso do sujeito coletivo (DSC) de acordo com a teoria moscoviciana de representa??es sociais. O p?blico alvo foram dezenove alunos do sexto per?odo do segundo semestre do ano de 2010 e vinte e dois alunos do primeiro per?odo do primeiro semestre do ano de 2011, do Curso de Tecnologia em Gest?o Ambiental do Instituto Federal Goiano ? Campus Uruta?, para se fazer uma compara??o dos alunos quando iniciam o curso e quando terminam, observando se no DSC dos alunos do sexto per?odo, houve avan?o no conhecimento cient?fico em rela??o ao bioma Cerrado, quando comparado com o DSC dos alunos do primeiro per?odo. A participa??o na pesquisa foi volunt?ria, sendo que os participantes tiveram que entregar um termo de consentimento livre e esclarecido, pois se trata de uma pesquisa com humanos, de acordo com o Conselho Nacional de ?tica em Pesquisa. O resultado encontrado foi que os DSCs tanto do primeiro como do sexto per?odos s?o bem semelhantes, sendo que o cerrado aparece com objetiva??o na apresenta??o do Estado de Goi?s, sugerem a agropecu?ria como a melhor op??o de investimento nos arranjos produtivos para o cerrado, e ainda, d?o ?nfase ? riqueza de biodiversidade no bioma Cerrado. Por?m as respostas dos alunos do sexto per?odo tiveram textos mais coerentes em rela??o ao conhecimento cient?fico, comprovando que houve avan?o no conhecimento, alguns sugerindo inclusive alternativas para amenizar o conflito entre produ??o agropecu?ria e conserva??o ambiental